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World League has started since few weeks ago! I think that the best match of last week was Brasil vs Poland
Stadium was all red and fans were wonderful! However Poland couldn't use from that condition and lost, but 1 point against Brasil is not bad!
And also Iran played a very good match against Russia, Olympic winner, and showed a great performance!
Iran could win at least 2 sets in the first match, but Russia didn't allow and used from their experience! I think that Iran lost because of lack of ecperience!
However, Iran will play in Tehran next week against Serbia, of course 12000 fans and more will be at the stadium! I remember that Iran beat Serbia once 3-2! This shows Iran can beat Serbia again
Go Go Iran
Hey Alireza ,which country is it being held? Or it changes for every team ? :)
It depends on each team ranking! If a team ranking is high and it's at the top, Russia for example, that team will host 3 countries in 2 matches! That means when a team hosts 3 countries in 2 matches, the home team will have 6 matches in it's country!
Iran is in pool 2, because has lower ranking than other teams, Iran will host just 2 countries,Serbia and Germany,!
Russia thrill home fans with straight sets win over SerbiaRussia's coaching team help plot the victory over SerbiaKaliningrad, Russia, June 14, 2013 - Russia beat Serbia 3-0 (29-27, 25-14, 25-20) on Friday in the first of their two FIVB World League meetings of the weekend. Nikolay Pavlov and Spiridonov Alexey topped the home side's scoring with 16 and 14 points respectively, while Aleksandar Atanasijevic scored 14 for the visiting side.The first set saw both teams come out strongly, furiously trading the points up to the first technical time-out (8-6). But Russia then jumped 10-6 ahead and forced Serbia call for a time-out. Fine work at the net by Russia meant the visitors struggled to recover, but Serbia finally found their rhythm to level the score at 20-20. They traded points, with Serbia grabbing a game point at 26-27, but Russia regrouped. Coach Andrey Voronkov took a time-out and his side attacked well to take the set 29-27. Serbia started the second set slowly, with some mistakes when receiving the ball, letting Russia's Nikolay Pavlov and Alexey Spiridonov attack effectively. Soon the hosts gained a four point advantage at 10-6. Blocks from Nikolay Apalikov and aces from Evgeny Sivozhelez extended the lead to 18-10, and Russia maintained it till the end of the set 25-14. It was more of the same in the third set. Russia's superior attacks, led by Alexey Spiridonov, again gave the hosts the lead. They were 8-6 up at the first technical time-out, and successfully kept their distance. Serbia couldn't respond, making service mistakes and Nikolay Pavlov closed the match.The match was seen by 6,260 spectators.The two sides will meet at the same place at 18:00 local time (14:00 GMT) tomorrow.
Russia vs Iran 07/06/2013
Italy vs Germany 07/06/2013
Netherlands vs Japan 09/06/2013
Brazil's coach has 'great expectations for this World League'San Martín, Argentina, June 14, 2013 – Brazil took one more step in its undefeated streak at the FIVB World League, in a 3-0 win against Argentina on Friday."We have great expectations for this World League, after the two victories in Poland and the one tonight," said Brazil's head coach Bernardo Rezende. "Both teams are renewed and for us this is a very important chance to try new players, as it is for Argentina, as they are already qualified for the Finals. That, too, is our goal."The three set victory, (20-25, 21-25 and 15-25), was facilitated by Brazil's strong serves."First of all, I want to congratulate Brazil for the victory," said Argentina's captain Luciano De Cecco "We had many trouble today with the serving, not only our serve wasn't good but besides Brazil hurt us a lot with his serving. That kept us from displaying our game. We hope to improve tomorrow."Argentina showed signs of defeat by the third set and fell behind to 10-19, giving Brazil enough edge to be cool towards the victory. "We did what we always do: serve well and have a good overall performance. Argentina wasn't in their best night. We had a pretty smooth victory," said Brazil's captain Bruno Rezende."I think Argentina is trying to find its game, because they are already in Mar del Plata," said Brazilian player William Arjona. "We played the way we want and that resulted in a very good output. It was important to win 3-0 and we want to improve even more for tomorrow."Argentina and Brazil play Match 36 on Saturday, June 15 instead of Sunday June 16 as previously announced at the new time of 23:30 GMT (20:30 local time), where Argentina will try to redeem itself for a comeback. "We made a lot of mistakes," said Argentina's Head Coach Javier Weber. "We must be stronger in the middle of the net. We failed a lot in receiving and that was our main problem. At the same time, I think Nicolás (Uriarte) played well and we could play at similar levels than Brazil, but they were much more effective." "Our serve wasn't good tonight. We didn't play at all like we did in US and, on the other hand, they served very well. Now we're just thinking on doing better tomorrow," said Argentina's player Nicolás Uriarte.
Argentina vs Brasil 14/06/2013
World League week three begins with full 3-0 sweepsLausanne, Switzerland, June 15, 2013 – Every FIVB World League match on Friday ended with teams sweeping their opponents in 3-0 victories for Russia, Italy, Canada, Brazil and the USA.Serbia, Cuba, Korea, Argentina and France didn't have a chance, as their opponents won set after set on day one of the third week of the 2013 FIVB Volleyball World League.Russia, Italy and Brazil remain undefeated in this year's tournament, as Cuba and France have yet to win a match.Russia and Serbia faced-off in Friday's first match, with the home team winning 3-0 (29-27, 25-14, 25-20). Serbia's captain Dragan Stankovic called his side's worst defeat in two years. Russia are top of Pool B with three wins out of three. Serbia remain in second place with two wins and one loss. The two sides will meet again at 18:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday.Russia remains undefeated in the 2013 World League, breaking Serbia's winning streak. If Russia wins Saturday's match against Serbia, it will begin the World League 4-0 for the third time in the last four years.Italy also swept its match 3-0 against Cuba (25-20, 25-17, 25-23) in the first of two meetings between the teams on Friday at home. Italy are now second in Pool B, one point behind Russia, with eight points. Cuba lie in fifth after losing all three of their matches so far. The two sides meet in Florence on Sunday, 16 June at 19:00 GMT.Italy also remains undefeated, marking the fourth consecutive year in which it has won at least its first three matches of the World League. If Italy wins Sunday's matche, it will improve to 4-0 for the first time since 2011, when it started 6-0.Brazil prevailed in straight sets against Argentina (20-25, 21-25 and 15-25). The away team proved they are serious about their commitment to this year's World League."We have great expectations for this World League, after the two victories in Poland and the one tonight," said Brazil's head coach Bernardo Rezende. "Both teams are renewed and for us this is a very important chance to try new players, as it is for Argentina, as they are already qualified for the Finals. That, too, is our goal."Korea accepted weakness in their 0-3 loss (25-10, 25-18) against home-team Canada. Korea started set one with some promise, but Canada regained its composure and confidence to win by six points in the first set, eventually taking the second and third sets."We were technically weak, especially in our serving. We weren't ready and we are looking forward to the next game," said Korea's coach Ki-Won Park.USA wowed their fans at home with a full sweep against winless France (25-15, 29-27, 25-16). Team USA kept up a strong attack at the net and held off a second-set rally by France as it defeated the European side. USA's Matt Anderson, who was named Player of the Match, led all scorers with 22 points on 17 kills, three blocks and two aces.All teams will meet again this weekend, with Japan and Finland also joining week three matches on Saturday.
Japan vs Finland 15/06/2013
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Fukuzawa leads Japan to comeback win against Finland
Komaki, Japan, June 16, 2013 – After picking up their first home win under new coach Gary Sato, hosts Japan faced another difficult match against Finland on Sunday in Pool C of the FIVB 2013 World League. Japan dropped a tough first set, but rebounded for a second straight win in Komaki, 3-1 (23-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-22).Japan was led by an aggressive Tatsuya Fukuzawa with 24 points, and was supported by Yu Koshikawa with 16. Leading Finland was Urpo Sivula with 14 points and Matti Oivanen with 12, including four blocks.Finland looked much better out of the gate compared to Saturday, with Matti Oivanen putting a hard block on Koshikawa for a score and Mikko Esko driving a spike for a 6-2 lead. But Japan would battle back with defensive hustle, tying it at 16-16 with a smart Koshikawa spike off the block. It remained close until late, but Finland snatched the set 25-23 with strong blocking from the Oivanen brothers, each with a pair of blocks in the set.Japan bounced back to take an 8-5 lead at the first TTO in the second set, but the aggressive Oivanens brought Finland back to 9-9. After a Koshikawa ace put Japan back ahead 14-11, Finland's Sivula brought three spikes and an endline ace to make it a one-point game at 19-18. But with Koshikawa serving strong, Yusuke "Gottsu" Ishijima evened the match at a set apiece with a spike.The third was a scrappy affair, with Finland grabbing a 10-6 edge as their block still proved effective against the attacking Fukuzawa. But Japan was sparked by great play from libero Takeshi Nagano as well as Gottsu off the bench, eventually going ahead 15-14 when frustrated Finnish coach Tuomas Sammelvuo received a red card. But it was more Gottsu late on, frustrating an attacking Antti Siltala with a block to make it 21-17 and serving well as Japan took the third 25-19 and with it a 2-1 lead.Fukuzawa kept up the strong serving, dropping a pair of consecutive aces on Finland early, helping his side up 8-5. Great attacking from Koshikawa kept them ahead, with Kota Yamamura posting an emphatic block (his third) to make it 16-11 for Japan. But Finland showed great heart coming back late, with spikes from Jukka Lehtonen and Niklas Seppänen bringing them within one at 21-20. But Fukuzawa's 24th point would finish it off 25–22, handing the match 3–1 to Japan.
Brazil beat Argentina again, 3-0! Argentina played good in first and second set,and the scores were close, 25-21,27-25! But the third set was just for Brazil, 25-13!Argentina lost it's 2 matches against Brazil, and couldn't earn even 1 point! Brazil is on fire
Iran loses World Leage home game to SerbiaTehran, Iran, June 21, 2013- Serbia claimed 3-2 victory against home team Iran in pool B on Friday (26-24, 25-23,17-25, 14-25 , 18-16)."We are glad for this win," said Serbia's head coach Igor Kolakovic. "The situation was not good for us. We played well in first and second set. Iran changed opposite player and they became good. They had good services they were very well in defense."More than 12,000 fans flockd to Azadi Hall in Tehran to watch the team's first-ever home game of the FIVB World League, in a thrilling five-set match."I should congratulate to the spectators," said Serbia's head coach Igor Kolakovic. "They created good Atmosphere for home team."Serbia showed the upper hand in the beginning of the match, gradually in the first set using the efficient spikes of Atanasijevic and the blocking by Marko, until Iran players got the control of game with a three point lead. Serbia, however, showed more awareness by the end and won the first set 26-24.The second set was in favor of Iran, who had good spikes and sound blocks and by 8-4 got the first technical time out. Iran continued with weak blocks, falling behind and allowing Serbia to take the second, 25-23.In third set, Iran kept a lead, but Serbia showed motivation to win Spectators were warmly backing up home team, as Serbia struggled from behind 16-22. With Farhad Ghaemi's serves and spikes of Mousavi, however, Iran won the set 25-17.Iran kept its lead in the fourth set, while Serbian players fell behind of home team. Iran was leading and kept it until winning the set 25-14.Set five proved the most exciting, as Iran saved one point by winning set 3 and 4 through the leadership of the experienced setter Saeed Marouf, extening the match to tiebreak. The tiebreak was controlled by the experience of Serbian players, as they lead 8-6. Iran players showed upper hand and made score tie 8, but Serbia pulled ahead to win the set 18-16. "We are happy with the win," said Dragan Stankovic Serbia's captain. "We suffered a lot of pressure and we made a lot of mistakes."Serbia's best player was Atanasijevic Aleksander, with 23 win points from total of 74 attempts. Iran's Farhad Ghaemi got 16 win points from total of 52 attempts."We lost to the experience of Serbia," said Saeed Marouf, Iran's captain. "We took third and fourth sets, and in the tiebreak we were doing equal job. I think all of us are satisfied with our play.""We were expecting to win but we lost," said Iran's Julio Velasco. "We did good play in two sets in last set we made score tie 16. Our service was not good in first set. We changed Mahmoudi and he did a good job. In every time we learn from Serbia They showed us how to get use from good defense. My players' fighting spirit of was fantastic until last moment."
Again, lack of experience made Iran loser of the match! Stadium was full and 12000 fans were just screaming "Iran".Farhad Ghaemi's serves were like hurricane and could get many points from Serbia! And also the condition of the stadium was against Serbia;However, Serbia got 2 points and Iran got 1 point!The second match will be on Sunday, 17:00 PM -Iran Time-.


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Neighborhoods: College Park, Northside
Mongolian Wonderful – I have been going here for about sixteen years. The Mongolian part is awesome. I have tried other Chinese "Mongolian" and they do not measure up. I agree with the other gentleman that said the "other" buffet that is included is not so great. It's good for "sides" when it is fresh, but it is not always so fresh.
There use to be two owners brother and sister, The brother was great, the sister is a bit up tight but not always. The other employees are very friendly, Katie always remembers I drink water and I prefer chop sticks!
They are a little pricey Especially if you have children that may not eat so much.
Best Mongolian barbeque in town--highly recommended. – Great food and prices. Even though I have to travel further north than I would like, it is worth it. I wished they had more stores around town
Excellent Mongolian BBQ, Not so Excellent Chinese Food, beware if your a Big Guy!! – This restaurant is a Mongolian BBQ / Chinese type restaurant
I give this restaurant an average rating for two reasons.
First off, the Mongolian part of the restaurant is OUTSTANDING.
For those who don't know, Mongolian BBQ is a buffet style eatery.
You pick your meats, vegetables, sauces etc, and they cook it all on a big very hot griddle type wok in front of you. At Mongolian, you get a choice of beef, chicken & pork, all raw of course, low mein type noodles and a very big assortment of fresh vegetables and wide variety of sauces and spices to add to your dish. There are so many different combinations you can make, depending on what you choose to add to the dish. In one word to describe the taste, OUTSTANDING. Of course, if you add the wrong combinations of sauces and or spices, the taste can be somewhat unbearable. Trust Me. This is something you have to learn to master to your own liking, and be careful of the HOT sauces. They are indeed HOT.
The chinese buffet style food, which is included in the Mongolian price, to me is not fit to eat. I have tried it several times, and I find it almost unedible. The fried chicken wings, 90% of the time were not cooked all the way through. Stick with just the mongolian BBQ and you will do just fine.
Now, on my last note... I took my party to this restaurant on fathers day. There were 5 in my party and they wanted to seat us at a table that sat 4 people. I told the owner, who usually does the seating, that I wanted a bigger table, that a table for 4 just wasnt big enough for the 5 of us. She got upset and told me that I needed a table for 4 for myself, and walked off. Now note, I am a big guy, but I dont believe it was called for to insult me like that in front of my party. When I told her it was uncalled for to insult me, she just told me other people need the tables and she didn't want us using two tables.
Expect to pay about $10 per person with drink.
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Boston >Food & Dining > Longhorn Steakhouse
401 Park Dr, Boston, MA | Directions 0221542.344499 -71.102903
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Neighborhoods: West Fens, Fenway/Kenmore
National chain rustles up rib eyes, T-bones and fillets in a kid-friendly, Lone Star-inspired setting. – In Short
One of the country's most successful steakhouse empires attracts a casual crowd with huge, reasonably priced steak dinners and a tempered Texan milieu (country music and imposing cattle busts). Wise diners turn off their internal calorie counters, as many menu items arrive fried, covered in cheese, or both. A typically rich meal starts with cheese fries, followed by a blue cheese-crusted fillet. Fried cheesecake ends the night on a note of Texas-sized decadence.
Great Place – I have been there several times now usually with my boyfriend. We both really enjoy this restaurant. The drinks are fabulous and actually pretty cheap. The food has always been really good. The music is great (if you like country). The staff could actually tone it down a bit sometimes. Its right off the T and by the movie theater which is huge plus.
Value, and it's on the T – The best value steak that you can get to on the T. Similar to Outback, you'll find mostly college students here for the bang for the buck. Food is good, portions are big, you get bread and salad with all steaks. Sure, they're not the most quality cuts, but for $15 do you expect that?
Tips: The prime rib is excellent AND tender.
They have call ahead seating that actually works great, and avoids the hour plus waits on weekend nights.
Great Place, Pushy Wait Staff – I have been going to Longhorn with my girlfriend since it opened up in the Landmark center. Great atmosphere, convenient location and good straight forward food. The only thing that truly annoys me about this place is the pushy wait staff, who consistently insist on asking if you have ever been there before (like it's some crazy different type of place) and showing us specials with pictures even when we ask them not too. They treat us like low-class, dumb Americans and seem stunned when there annoyingly chipper, pushy, used-car-salesman approach bothers people. Manager - retrain your people, you are ruining what could be just a relaxing atmosphere!
Menu can be hit or miss, but hits are good. – I've been to this Longhorn 3 times, and had 2 good experiences and one bad, all related to the food. The cheeseburgers are good if you want to hit them up before a Sox game. The Texas Cheese Fries are awful because they have a punguent chili all over them. The Texas Tonion deep fried onion appetizer is delicious. The steaks really depend on the quality of the cut you get, which can be hit or miss, and if the cook on duty will actually cook it the way you ask. I prefer very rare steaks, and I've ordered rare that came out just a little pink in the middle. The Caesar salad is pretty lousy. The last time I went, I had a T-Bone that was seasoned and cooked really well. As they say, your milage may vary.
Great Experience – I have eaten here a few times and it has been excellent every time. Great food at a good value, and the beer is nice and cold. Can't go wrong.
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Monday To Thursday From 06:00 AM To 02:00 AM Friday To Saturday From 06:00 AM To 04:00 AM Sunday From 06:00 AM To 02:00 AM
Neighborhoods: Bywater, Bywater
Go here directly from the airport. – Ended up darkening the doorway of this joint at about 1030 with a buddy on a Friday night last spring. actually walked past it if you dont know what your looking for you'll miss it. After being served by what I can only describe as the "NASCAR Pit Crew of Bartenders" I had to collect my eyelashes off the bar when I took my first drink. Then it happened,.. I was directed up stairs where they were playing B-Side 45's of old rockabilly records, Very Cool! Closed the place, bartenders were awesome, the crowd is great, didn't try the food but if its as good as the atmosphere, music and drinks then go there from the airport when you land.
Best Kept Secret – This place is the best kept secret in New Orleans! It was suggested by a local waiter in another restaurant to go there and try the food. It is totally out of the way of any main tourist area, so be prepared to take a cab. Looks can be deceiving - we initially thought we might be in the wrong place because it looks like a typical neighborhood bar...and it is. However, the chef there prepares some of the best damn food we have ever eaten!! There is a "Trust Me" dish on the menu and it is whatever the chef feels like preparing. The night we went, we got an experimental vegetable dish that was so good I can't even describe it. The patatas bravas were the best I have had. We got lamb medallions that had me chewing on the bone. If we had know how good this place is at the beginning of our trip, we probably would have gone back until we had tried every plate on the menu. Amazing!!!
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Africa AIDS Watch
In June 1995, a group of concerned Africans studying in the United States came up with an idea. That each year millions of dollars worth of aids are distributed by kind hearted Americans across the globe. That an insignificant percentage of this aid went to Africa in spite of the fact that Africa because of its peculiar nature and situation needed more of these assistance than others.
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In most parts of Africa, the child belongs to the community. In most parts of Africa, the education and upkeep of a child is the mother's responsibility only when the child is still in the womb. And in most parts of Africa, good quality western education is the business of the community. That's the resaon why most Africans, especially the male child is expected to be his brother's keeper. At the community level, therefore, it falls squarely on the shoulders of the few Africans who have received western education to use it effectively for the benefit of his larger society who predominantly are poor. And who inspite their relative poverty have collectively eked out a contribution towards the education of most of their sons and daughters. It is against the background that, every African Child is expected to give back to society what society had given to him/her.
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'Parenthood' actor Dax Shepard announced on March 28, 2013 that his longtime partner Kristen Bell has welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Lincoln Bell Lincoln.
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Thursday, Jun 7, 2012, 2:04 PM in Conference
June, 2012, Florida: Best TechEd Ever!
This month in Florida is going to be my 2nd TechEd ever and I'm sure the best by far. The number of things I get to do is staggering:
- I get to work the Telerik booth for my first big show. We'll be launching not one but two completely new Telerik products. Fun!
- Since the Telerik Ultimate Collection has been nominated for the Best of TechEd, I get to give a dead-run 15-minute demo to the judges with fellow Teleriker Michael Crump.
- Also with Michael, I'll be giving the 30-minute "Telerik + Blend: Better Together" talk in the Microsoft Visual Studio booth showing off how 3rd party controls work inside the newest Blend for building Metro style apps on Windows 8.
- The first chapter of the Metro/JS book I'm writing with another fellow Teleriker Brandon Statrom is being printed and bound in a limited quantity for the show. Stop by and get your signed copy!
- I get to be one of the Speaker Idol judges every day at lunch.
- I'm sure there's at least one podcast recording in there, too, somewhere…
I honestly can't remember when I've looked forward to a conference more. I'll see you there!
Monday, Oct 25, 2010, 11:30 PM in Conference
Data at PDC 2010
There are lots of great data talks at PDC 2010, all of which are available for online viewing:
- Code First Development with Entity Framework
Jeff Derstadt, Tim Laverty
Thursday, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (GMT-7)
- Creating Custom OData Services: Inside Some of The Top OData Services
Pablo Castro
Thursday, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM (GMT-7)
- Enabling New Scenarios and Applications with Data in the Cloud
Dave Campbell
Thursday, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM (GMT-7)
- Building Scale-Out Database Solutions on SQL Azure
Lev Novik
Friday, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (GMT-7)
- Building Offline Applications using the Sync Framework and SQL Azure
Nina Hu
On Demand
Saturday, Apr 18, 2009, 4:21 PM in Conference
DSL Developer's Conference
DSL Developers Conference
applied topics in domain specific
April 16-17, 2009, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA
Spirit of the Developer's Conference
The goal of the DSL Developer's Conference is to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we're spending time at a conference in the first place -- the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners. By doing so, we can keep your wasted time to a minimum. In fact, if you don't go away with your head hurting from all the new ideas you've heard, we've haven't done our job!
|2 days of practical, applied DSL sessions from industry experts and practitioners
|April 16th, 1pm-6pm (registration at noon), April 17th, 9am-6pm
Microsoft Research Building 99, Room 1919
14820 NE 36th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
(on the other side of 520 from main campus)
If you're flying, you want to target the Seattle-Tacoma Int'l Airport (SEA).
|$0 for 1.5 days of sessions (half the bargain at twice the cost!)
Sadly, It's Over
But you can see the videos and download the slides here!
There were countless blog posts and tweets.
Fabulous conference, folks. Best DevCon ever!
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Monday, Mar 30, 2009, 7:38 AM in Conference
DSL DevCon: More Attendees Than Ever
This year's DevCon for DSLs has 25% more attendees than any other previous DevCon. In this economy, I'm amazed by this.
And it's not just people from the US or even the Pacific Northwest. Not only do we have people from all over the country, but folks are coming from Canada, the UK, Scotland, France, South America and one attendee, Tomas Petricek, a student at Charles University, is coming from the Czech Republic.
Luckily, as we slide into home, there are still a scant few seats left if you'd like to register, but be quick before they're all gone!
I so miss this conference. Why don't I do this more often?!
Thursday, Mar 5, 2009, 10:32 AM in Conference
Did you register for the DSL DevCon and not hear back?
Apparently even more people have registered for the DSL DevCon than I thought. If you've sent a registration notice and having heard back from me, then you aren't registered. Please register again or email me directly: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Monday, Mar 2, 2009, 8:10 PM in Conference
DSL DevCon: The 13th Talk
Magnus Christerson, the Vice President of Product Management from Intentional Software Corp, founded by Charles Simonyi, is giving the very last talk at the DSL DevCon, so make sure to stick around!
Also, seats are filling up FAST, faster than any of the other DevCons. Make sure to register now if you're coming! And don't forget, it's free!
Monday, Feb 23, 2009, 12:11 PM in Conference
DSL DevCon Speakers and Sessions Announced!
Apparently there is quite a bit of pent up demand for this conference, as there were more than 50 session proposals for only 12 slots and we've already filled half the seats with just pre-registrations.
Sessions include an M deep dive by Paul Vick, DSLs in Groovy by Guillaume Laforge, DSLs in Eclipse by Markus Voelter, a functional vs. dynamic DSLs smackdown by Ted Neward, a DSL for Pixel Effects from Adobe and last, but certainly not least, giving the keynote for the entire conference, the undisputed Duke of DSLs himself, Maaaaaartin Foooooowler-er-er-er!
Come to Lang.NET and stay for the DSL DevCon or just come to the DevCon, but whatever you do, sign up for the FREE DSL DevCon right now! All 5 of the other DevCons have sold out and I expect this one to be no different.
Thursday, Jan 15, 2009, 4:36 PM in Conference
DSL DevCon Pre-registration
There's been such a flood of DSL DevCon talk proposals that I've had a hard time keeping up (although feel free to let those nice folks in Eclipse, XML, Java and Unix land if you know who they are!).
Also, there's been a huge amount of interest in attending the conference itself and some folks even worry that the conference will sell out before they can register (the first five DevCons have all sold out and those cost money!), so they've been asking me to put 'em on a list. I'm still working out the logistics with the nice Lang.NET folks, but if you'd like to pre-register for the DSL DevCon, drop me a line and I'll put you on the list. It will be my job to make sure that anyone that pre-registers gets to go.
Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009, 4:53 PM in Conference
Call For Speakers: DSL DevCon
Are you interested in presenting a 45-minute talk on some Domain Specific Language (DSL) related topic? It doesn't matter which platform or OS you're targeting. It also doesn't matter whether you're an author, a vendor, a professional speaker or a developer in the trenches (in fact, I tend to be biased toward the latter). We're after interesting and unique applications of DSL technology and if you're doing good work in that area, then I need you to send me a session topic and 2-4 sentence abstract along with a little bit about yourself.
I'll be taking submissions 'til February 9th, 2009, but don't delay. Passion and a burning story to tell count twice as much as anything else.
And don't be shy about spreading this announcement around! I've got good coverage in the .NET and Windows communities, but don't know very many folks in the Java or Unix or hardcore modeling worlds, so if you're in that world, let those guys know! Thanks.
The DSL DevCon itself will be in Redmond, WA on the Microsoft campus April 16-17, 2009, right after the Lang.NET conference. Lang.NET will be focused on general-purpose languages, whereas the DSL DevCon will focus on domain-specific languages. The idea is that if you want to attend one or the other or both, that's totally fine. We'll have 2.5 days of Lang.NET on April 14-16 and then 1.5 days of DSL DevCon content.
Oh, and the cost for both conferences is the same: $0.
We're only accepting 150 attendees to either conference. Every one of the five previous DevCons have sold out, so when we open registration, you'll want to be quick about getting your name on the list.
Submit your DSL-related talk idea!
Thursday, Dec 18, 2008, 5:15 PM in Conference
Lang.NET + DSL DevCon = Joy
This year, we're thinking very hard about putting the Lang.NET conference and the DSL DevCon at the same venue (the research center on the Microsoft Redmond campus) in the same week. The idea is that people interested in general-purpose language design and development can come to Lang.NET and the people interested in domain-specific languages can come to the DSL DevCon and for folks interested in both, the DSL DevCon will start right after Lang.NET, so folks can stay a little longer and come to both. Also, the conference chairs on both conferences will make sure to keep the content unique across the two conferences.
We think that's a good way to make sure the conferences complement each other and helps keep people's schedules sane and their travel costs lower. However, I have two questions for you:
1. Traditionally, Lang.NET is 3 days and a DevCon is 2 days. Because of the overlap of the content (languages), we were wondering if folks thought it would be a good idea to do 2.5 days of Lang.NET and 1.5 days of DSL DevCon this year instead, doing both conferences in 4 days instead of 5. What do you think?
2. If we linked these two events like this, will you attend just Lang.NET, just DSL DevCon or both?
Post your comments on this blog entry. Vote early, vote often!
Thursday, Nov 6, 2008, 1:43 PM in Conference
The DSL DevCon
I'm thinking it's time for another DevCon. I know it's been a while since the last one (in fact, I hear there was some kind of petition to have another one? : ), so we're long past due.
This one will be on all things data-driven, model-based and/or DSL enhanced. I'm thinking March or April of 2009. Who's interested?
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2006, 8:58 AM in Conference
Would anyone be interested in another DevCon?
I'm thinking about doing a DevCon before the end of the year (likely October) in a pleasant environment (likely the Skamania Lodge) on a topic that's *not* XML or Web Services based (we've done that topic to death). The soul of the DevCon will remain the same, i.e. to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we're spending time at a conference in the first place -- the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners.
If I organized such an event, would anyone come?
Friday, Aug 26, 2005, 12:31 AM in Conference
No DevCon This Year
Please return to your regularly scheduled programming.
P.S. I imagine the DevCon come back in time, but it may well be a while...
Saturday, Oct 23, 2004, 6:36 PM in Conference
Sells on the SellsCon
125 attendees and speakers from 6 countries (US, Canada, England, Malaysia, Netherlands and Peru), 21 states and 60 companies, ranging from vendors to expert practitioners and even a few poor souls trying to learn XML. 24 hours of talks and events spread over two days. 44 bloggers and 247 blog entries about the event itself (not including warm-up to the event or my own blog entries), nearly all of which were over-whelmingly positive, including one eWeek piece and one entry from Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems that called me "a charming, welcoming, amusing guy." (I didn't pay him a cent, I swear! : )
In general, day 1 was dark and brooding, shouldering the brunt of the vendors who knew the technology inside and out and were feeling the pain of the downsides that they felt were holding them back. Day 2 was filled with hopeful stories of practitioners able to take what the vendors have given them, mix it with for their own secret sauce and really make it shine.
My very most favorite talk was Whitney Kemmey from the DOD with his unexpectedly captivating look at mixing XML with 10-year old technology and his endless submarine pictures, although Jeff Barr from Amazon continues to mesmerize me every time he takes the podium. Also, I really dug Doug Purdy's enthusiasm and forthrightness. Oh, and when Neetu Rajpal shut down Don for derailing her talk, I fell in love.
Inexplicably, the DevCon seems to just get better and better. I blame it on the community willing to listen to a variety of sources to hear what's really going on, some of it good and some of it that needs some work, whether it's from professional speakers or nervous amateurs, for-profit vendors or seasoned practitioners. Thanks for letting me participate.
Saturday, Oct 23, 2004, 6:08 PM in Conference
DevCon == 44 bloggers and 247 posts (so far)!
Here. Holy cow! I knew people liked the DevCon, but I've never seen a blogging response like this. I've found 44 separate bloggers and 247 posts related to the event itself (not counting the warm-up to the event). That's almost 6 posts/blogger or 2 posts/attendee! Good lord, but these were a prolific bunch...
Thursday, Oct 21, 2004, 5:45 PM in Conference
Applied XML Dev.Conf. 5 Web Sightings
Here. I got so tons of positive feedback during the DevCon about the talks, the venue, the format, etc, for which I thanked each person sincerely. However, the huge number of DevCon-related posts on the web, including a reporter's piece on DevSource, was overwhelming.
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004, 6:40 PM in Conference
DevCon5 is Sold Out... Again
At 4:13:02pm, the Applied XML Developer's Conference has sold out (again). Eric Hayes, the VP of Development from You Software, Inc. was the last lucky attendee. Welcome, Eric!
Monday, Oct 18, 2004, 1:51 PM in Conference
Coming into the final DevCon5 curve
As is always the case, tons of things are coming together at the last moment for the 5th DevCon:
- Received Tim Ewald's flight arrangements so that I can pick him up on the way to the conference
- Don "XML" is going to make sure that Tim Bray gets to the Portland Nerd Dinner and to the conference in time for his keynote address
- T-shirts on their way
- Proceedings printed and in my garage
- Maps printed so that I can find my way (haven't been there in years and years)
- Brothers Sells excited about the extra days off from school so that they can hang at the Skamania Lodge (although I'm pretty sure they're expecting to be able to play their Gameboys the entire time : )
- Microphones, podium, projector and project screens arranged for speakers
- Wireless Internet access and power arranged for attendees (and speakers)
- All but a handful of seats filled in our expanded space (8 seats left)
- Rory giving away a free conference registration on his site
Sunday, Oct 17, 2004, 10:27 PM in Conference
Tim Bray Prepares For His DevCon Talk
Tim wonders whether he should let the 'softies attending and speaking at the Applied XML Developer's Conference have it or not. I say, give us both barrels, Tim!
Friday, Oct 15, 2004, 12:00 PM in Conference
Don at the DevCon on "WS-Why?"
Don sent his new talk abstract my way this morning:
"WS-Why? This talk will make sense of why various WS-* specs came to life and which ones every developer should ignore. Naturally, the size of this set is non-zero, however, it is not the entire universe. Hopefully, the audience will be left with a mental model for what to ignore going forward as the WS-* machine continues to move forward."
Personally, I've always wondered about the history of the avalanche of WS-* specs and to hear it from an irreverent horse's mouth should be tons o' fun.
Thursday, Oct 14, 2004, 12:09 PM in Conference
Rory Giving Away One Seat at the XML Dev.Conf.
Rory is giving away one seat to the Applied XML Developer's Conference. He's asking three questions before Friday and drawing from anyone that can answer all three. Question 1 and question 2 have already been posted.
There are still a hand full of seats left if you're like to purchase one.
Wednesday, Oct 13, 2004, 10:54 AM in Conference
DevCon5 Anticipation Reception for All
Here. If you're going to be checking into the Skamania Lodge for the DevCon by 7pm on Tuesday, 10/19, please join us for the Anticipation Reception for all attendees and speakers. If you decide to hang with the Portland Nerd Dinner crowd instead that night, I'll understand. : )
Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004, 9:13 AM in Conference
Don changes his talk at the DevCon
Don got a last minute bug to write on a completely different topic. I just got the slides this morning and they're different than anything I've ever seen from Don (which is saying a lot). The new title of the talk is "ws-islands" and while I have no abstract as yet, I'm still very much looking forward to the talk for the psychedelic effects of the slides alone (I asked him to be careful not to cause seizures in the audience).
There are just a few seats left, so register now or be prepared to sit this one out.
Tuesday, Oct 5, 2004, 9:31 PM in Conference
From Chris Sells to Sam Ruby
I can't get Sam to reply to my emails, so I'm hoping he'll see this post: Sam, can I get the status of your DevCon slides? They were due Monday. Thank you.
Monday, Oct 4, 2004, 3:12 PM in Conference
XML Developer's Conference Hotel Rooms Releasing
Here. If you haven't made your hotel reservation for the Applied XML Developer's Conference, Oct. 20-21 at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington (40 minutes from Portland Int'l airport), you'll want to do that today as the rooms we've been holding are about to be released to the general public. Also, if you haven't registered for the conference, you'll want to register now, as we've only got a few seats left.
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catson52 wrote: Interesting to note "history does not repeat itself ...".
Yes, history does repeat itself, but garbed in the mufti of the day, so we rarely recognize it.
The Economy
Normally open July 4th only---the one day a year when partisan politics, religion, etc. are acceptable topics on this Board (within reason). The forum is now closed.
The subprime mortgage meltdown totally explained: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJH2CcpXztE
Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities:
Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates.
Criminals on Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them with turds. Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poor rated these boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes were then sold all over the world to investors. Eventually somebody bites into a turd and discovers the crime. Suddenly nobody trusts American chocolates anymore worldwide.
Hank Paulson now wants the American taxpayers to buy up and
hold all these boxes of turd-infested chocolates for $700 billion
dollars until the market for turds returns to normal.
Meanwhile, Hank's buddies, the Wall Street criminals who stole all the good chocolates, are not being investigated, arrested, or indicted.
Mama always said: 'Sniff the chocolates first, Forrest'.
Um . . . I think I see a flaw in this strategery.
Wow. Greenspan now questions if his long commitment to free-market theory may have been wrong all along?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 002&sc=978
Um..that quote is attributed to Forrest Gump, a fictional character. I cannot vouch for the origin, authenticity, validity or wisdom. Early on, I DQ'd myself as not competent to calm the currently troubled economic waters.
I believe the universal reaction has been "no shit, Sherlock!"
I've noticed that a lot of exponents of free-market theory (which is a fallacy as there's no such thing) seem to have no problem with government subsidy or tax breaks. Strangely, that's not interference in the free market.
Ayn Rand must be spinning in her grave.
Not a chance, both she and Greenspan understand that the free market works when participants assume responsibility (losses) for their actions (risks). That is Rand101. Im sure a true Rand disciple could tell us how we could have stopped the looting of the banks over the last 10 years as executives sucked them dry of cash while filling the till with bad debt.
They wrongly assumed that the participants would assume responsibility. In a regulatory environment where there is little or no accountability, they aren't held responsible. Executives rape the company and walk away with millions, and the shareholders can't do anything to stop it (because the board can ignore shareholder resolutions). If you get paid 5 or 10 years of salary for screwing up in your job, where is your incentive to perform with competence and responsibility?
Sorry, paulthefan, but you don't need to be a Rand disciple to know how we could have stopped the looting of the banks. Quite to the contrary, sprintblox told us the answer, and it's one that is anathema to Rand disciples. Effective government regulation. It's that simple.
we have the largest government and one of the most regulatory that the world has ever known and it did not legally prevent those crimes and some would argue that the regulatory state caused and aided them. So far we have not recovered one dime from the robbers.
Im sure Randites (Objectivism) could easily tell us how their philosophy deals with these issues, Im not an adherent. Greenspan would not be qualified to represent them. I would suggest that general moral decay in a society is the cause. When a democratic society is morally strong its representatives do not tolerate those kinds of crimes.
lonewolf is right in part, but before the wallstreet guys like Lehman bros. execs stole millions and passed on that debt to solemn faced Paulson who would sell it to Joe the Plumber, there was first the millions of dollars that realtors and developers made first . That was set in motion by the actual INCREASE in regulation of banking that demanded that they bring more unqualified buyers into the market. Barney Frank must be lauging his ars off with his wealthy friends at Fannie Mae /Freddie Mac.
Seems like our govt consists of DEMS who make boneheaded policy based on wishful thinking void of reality with more than a bit of self-interest, and then the GOP (think realtors and developers) thinks of ways to, not stop it , but actually profit from it . Of course the DEMS profit wildly too(think Fannie Mae and numerous bank execs). All this points in one direction, a nation with a diminished moral compass.
You'll get no argument from me on that.
You say that as though something has changed in the last 200 years . . . not so much. That has been man's nature everywhere, at every time. The need for regulation at all is proof of this. And the fact that the regulation is used for amoral ends is further proof.
Quite the contrary, Just because the nature of man never change does not mean that people can afford not to be vigilant in the basics of civility and moral law. Mankind is unchanging, mans understanding of his nature, and appreciation of the implications, is changing. Cultures can decay as this understanding diminishes and is lost in the population. Cultures thrive when the common man has the moral compass of a Euclid.
A govt is first and foremost an imparter of basic principles of moral and civil conduct. A country's arcane and particular regulatory functions are secondary. A country's leadership needs first to enforce basic moral codes such as "thou shalt not steal" and needs to foster in the society those institutions that build the mores and attitudes of citizens that allow them to recognize thefts and other wickedness.
If a people reach the point of not being able to recognize grand theft of the US treasury on the order of billions, no regulation is possible that can stop it, regulation can actually be used to cause it. A free and moral people could never fall for the shell game of bankers and regulators and attendant hand wringing that just bilked them post facto out of billions. Prosecution against those crimes of theft could serve the country once there is confiscation of the ill gotten gains of the bankers. Fed prosecutors must move to seize their assets. Even if only a small portion can be regained, the first function of government is served. I dont know what statutes could be used but racketeering laws come to mind..
No regulation did that. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and its revisions did NOT force or encourage lending to unqualified borrowers. It stopped qualified borrowers from being rejected simply for living in a given neighborhood, even though they had good enough income and credit. If that Act is the cause of this meltdown, the meltdown would have already happened long long ago.
One of the biggest regulatory (or more accurately, deregulatory) drivers of this mess is this change in 2004 that allowed the banks to significantly increase their leverage and risk (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03sec.html). With that newfound freedom, they went haywire with zero-down loans, crazy ARMs, and couldn't bother to check out borrowers properly. They just wanted to lend, lend, lend so they can package the loans into securities and sell them. Executives didn't have to care about the risk, because as long as they could trade them they could book short-term profits and boost the stock price and get bonuses and cash in their stock options, and if it ever came crashing down they'd walk away with a golden parachute. Like how Stan O'Neal from Merrill Lynch got $161 million.
A snippet from the NYT article:
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You had me till there. The present-day USA is as 'free and moral' as you're going to see in the near or long-term future. (not we are THAT moral, but relatively speaking, yes we are). All the regulation (or deregulation) and all the vigilance in the world, and all the negative consequences for misdeeds, will not prevent what just happened from happening again. Human nature is ingrained and everyone's id is just as anxious to amass the pelf as ever.
funny that you should skip 25 years of regulation from 77 to today. Does it not prick your curiosity at all that a person could get a loan for a home with not a single penny in his savings account. Compare this with the era of the 80s and before, when one would need 10 % down. Only the most unscrupulous bankers in the 80s would give a loan on a property to an applicant who had no money to invest in it himself. You are excused though sprintblox as you were probably born less than 30 years ago.
Those bonuses were tied to percentages of "business produced" and it is that number which exploded upward as mandates for more loans came from congress. All of the subprime mortgages paper was produced with congress' will. The Execs made 100s of millions in cash exactly because there were billions in loans to show for it. Congress created through regulation a much bigger problem than banker thrift of the 70s ever could have.
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Sounding more and more libertarian these days! And relative to what/whom are your people "THAT moral" , or free? Such statements quickly gag in the quicksand pit of your "sucking arguments...."
Having seen the jolting demarcation in places south of Canada, where torment and misery slam up quick and hard against the golden bricks of ostentation , I know you can only define "moral" and "free" from within the confines of your {particularly special} glass house. When have you had to hunt for pennies, scavenge for bread crusts, or wonder where your dreams/hopes went so awry that death will be welcomed with grateful arms and a gutteral "Thank God!".......in some vicious Hobbesian state of nature, which being subject to laws made within civil society, is an abomination and an anomaly so absurdly tragic it defies further contemplation/existence.
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Regulation didn't force banks to lend to people with 0-5% down. The banks CHOSE to take that risk in recent years, as the relaxed regulations allowed them to do so.
That's a post that I have to call 'full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing."
My point (that you studiously avoided addressing) was that present-day USA (not unlike many other current nations) is as good as it's gonna get in the foreseeable future. Utopia is most assuredly NOT just around the corner. Do you demur?
Am I demure? No. Do I demur? Hard to say, you're being studiously vacuous in that special way of yours. I thought you'd be one of the first to argue for scientifically ehanced utopian advancements.........monster legs on lithe female sprinters doing the 9.28 gait, etc.
We shall see whether 8 years under Guh-Wuh-Bush has not shut up some stories, huddled in hell waiting, to be told, waiting to inspire those who are tired of hearing anything but songs of freedom and hope.... How could it not get better, Mr. Pitter-Patterson?
Ha! Moi vacuous? Is that secret code for 'you suck!' ?
It CAN get better. And our consciousness IS rising with every generation, but will it make a big difference in the next eon? Not likely.
How's that Looser-Lewis??!!
hmm interesting, and all my life I thought that throughout the 50-60-70-80s banks required down payments and disclosure of income and debt level all because they wanted to make money and not lose it. Now I find out that it was really just because there were "regulations" put in place from Congress back then and once those regulations changed, all those bank loan officers were able put on their party hats.
Now you're starting to get it! The management of the banks had a big party at everybody else's expense. They didn't care if the bank loses the money ... all they know is that they would personally benefit.
More loans = more on-paper profit for the quarter = boosted stock price in the short term. If it eventually crashes down, so what, walk away with a golden parachute. With a $161 million reward for screwing up, why would somebody give a damn whether the bank loses money? You're not really that naive to think they would manage the banks properly out of the strength of their character and their sense of responsibility?
Humans with power are greedy bastards by nature who will rape you figuratively and literally if it brings them personal profit. The law is what keeps them in check, not rationality or responsibility.
it sounds like we can agree on somethings. I would refer you to my previous post on moral decay and hazard. But if you do an honest study you will find that a significant cause of growth in the subprime mortgages was the demand by congress for US banks to create loans for people that were hitherto unqualified for home loans... THat my dear friend is government regulation.
No it was regulation.. it was the imposition of congressional will onto the banking industry. Go back and read the hearings, you will see democrat congressmen reading the riot act " the nation has to do something to bring more loans to more people" (paraphrase) . Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in perfect agreement. Everyone gets what they want with Congress blazing the trail. The imposition of congressional will (in this case Democrat) is a sound definition of regulation. The GOP had they stood up would have been vilified as racist and tools of the banking industry. Instead they kept silent and made sure that their constituents (realtors and developers) got as big a piece of the pie as the Dem side. That is the leadership we have, both parties doing what is best for their wealthiest constituents.
Oh puh-leez! Is it time to trot out the chestnut from Socrates (or whichever Greek philosopher it was) about the sorry condition of today's youth?
One need go back only a stunningly small number of years to find a nation with institutionalized (codified in fact) racism, repression of women's rights, etc., etc. I'll take the land we live in now, given the choice.
That same bit of Plato or whoever was doing the speaking/writing has often had me wonder the same thing. However, I doubt there has ever been a time when I've watched kids change so much in just a few decades - after all, I'm not Methuselah, but you surely get my drift? When else in history have children and youths been able to watch pornography, violence, and murder on the internet? Was it in Atlantis, perhaps? Trust me, I assure you gh you did NOT talk to your parents or teachers the way they do today. Ever tell your Grade 8 teacher to go "gh" herself and then threaten her with physical harm? Did your classmates, at age 12, discuss who had the hottest sex, the best drugs, and brandish steel and iron at the teacher? Yawn. I tell you, it is truly shocking what comes out of the young mouths these days.
Mojo, what think you? Anyone else taught among the less privileged socio-economic members? Even the privileged ones are more vulgar than Madonna backstage.
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I don't disagree that the youth of today seems to be overwhelmingly slanted towards being low-class louts. On the other hand, not sure that my parents didn't feel exactly the same about all those filthy dope-smoking free-sex hippies who became many of us.
The day that our "moral compass" (which was the fine point to which was referring) depends on how the raging-hormone set is acting, then I'll indeed think it's time to get outta Dodge. Maturity has a strange ameliorating effect; always has, always will.
BINGO! MY generation, teenagers in the 60s, were the SCUM of the Earth, the WORST generation ever, by far. Of course, it's also my generation that got us in our current economic mess!
I love your posts on here, brother, but unless you can work a few miracles, I refuse to believe that you were immaculately conceived
...and if you were my relatives...no vote nor right to citizenship even though they were born here.
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Shouldn't this go in Mangaworks or Writers Arena since I assume this is for a story?
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The way I heard it, she broke up because her new bosses told her to. What a cheap fame-hungry cow! But then it must be she never really loved him anyway, cause you don't break up with someone you love because someone else tells you to. She probably just really wants to be famous before anything else. SO unattractive.


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Positives -
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Negatives -
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* Colour - Lightest is too light even for vampires like me!
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I bought two shades, W24 Honey Beige and W15 Sand Beige which are suitable for darker or tanned skin tones.
Since I bought them directly in Korea it was pretty cheap (no shipping costs etc.) and it is a very popular brand here.
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- Good choice of colors (4 shades)
- Good coverage
- Breakouts on the chin
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This BB cream might be suitable in winter or cooler countries; I would repurchase it but due to the breakouts I won't.
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i've been using this bb cream (in honey beige) for months now and im really happy about it :) i wear it everyday to school.
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I am about MAC NC20 and use shade #2. Out of all the bb creams I have tried, this has the best coverage. I would usually wear this one when I go out at night.
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Texture: Creamy and a little on heavier side which is probably why coverage is good. Skin looks so smooth and flawless but still natural. Make sure to The bad thing I would say is that at the end of the day, I always find my pores clogged by this BB cream. I have tried using with/without primer, different setting powders, moisturizers, everything, but still end up with clogged pores. Frustrating haha! I have combination skin and would definitely reccomend to use an oil cleanser to remove this. I also use my clarisonic every night which is maybe why I don't break out with this bb cream like many people say.
Overall, I like it for now until I find something better.
I bought Etude house Precious mineral in shade 1, for oily skin. My skin is combination and it gets very dry in winter and very oily in summer. I avoid this cream in winter cause it is quite thick and can be drying. I have dry skin around my nose even in summer so I have to make sure to moisturize it well before applying this BB cream.
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ARE YOU DO FOLLOW BACK?no, well maybe perhaps yes if you talk to me and be kind.
{Dina ; 17yo.}
my favorite groups are shinee, 2ne1 and epik high. and my favorite pairings are minkey, jongyu, jongtae etc. kibum is my king of freaks and minzy also cl is my princess and queen of the cool things. tablo is like my map because he's amazing :) and i want to have a daughter like haru :-( she's so cute omg
i'm an awkward person so i'm sorry if you didn't feel comfortable with me because i'm not good to make a good convo.i will be so mad if someone call me an annoying one, but yeah i'm annoying, problem? ;)) i have bad memories in trusting people so i would be so cold for the first, but if you talk and get closer to me, i'll love you i swear, i'll be a nice girl who always need your attention. if you still want to talk with me, i always welcome you, please talk to me because im always alone sobs but im trying to be a good one so don't worry i will reply you with a good answer too, you can follow my twitter too :)